Taringa data breach: 28.0M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-04-19
In September 2017, news broke that Taringa had suffered a data breach exposing 28 million records. Known as "The Latin American Reddit", Taringa's breach disclosure notice indicated the incident dated back to August that year. The exposed data included usernames, email addresses and weak MD5 hashes of passwords. Exposed data: email addresses, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Aug 1, 2017; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Apr 19, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Taringa account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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